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Linux-VServer Utilities Installation

Note: There are different branches of the vserver utilities available. This chapter talks about the 'alpha' utilities, which support the most options and are the newest.

Debian SID (a.k.a. Debian Unstable)

apt-get install util-vserver

Fedora Core

TODO

Mandriva

TODO

Ubuntu

TODO

Compilation from Source

The kernel alone won't help you, you also need some tools to exploit all those new features you got, so let's get them. The latest tools can be found [here]. I'll use util-vserver 0.30.210 in this document, you should use whatever is latest.

Now that we got our sources, we need to do the usual steps: configure, make, make install. While configuring the tools you may get some error messages about missing stuff, for example dietlibc, vconfig and e2fs headers. The error messages are accompanied by explanations what you should do, so read them carefully. You can also specify --without xalan or --without dietlibc as a workaround.

# Switch to the util-vserver source directory
cd util-vserver-0.30.210
# Configure the sources (you may want to adjust settings here, the defaults work, but may not suite your needs)
./configure
# Build the tools
make
# Become root
su
# Install the tools
make install
# Back to our regular user
exit

Now we got our tools in place and we're ready to build our first vserver!

Testing

Oh, wait, we're not ready yet! To be sure that your setup works fine, we got a test script that checks some basic functionality. So download the [testme.sh] script and check if everything's fine.